Alexander Etkind's compact analytical essay on Russia and modernity — reviewed here by Yurii Colombo — argues that the Putin regime's project cannot be reduced to kleptocracy or Putin's personal pathology. Russia's fossil-fuel rent economy and nuclear inheritance have produced an overconfident, untested elite with material interests in defeating the climate transition and the digital economy that would render its wealth obsolete. The war against Ukraine is also.a war against a future in (…)

La Russie de Poutine a développé une catégorie particulière de personnages publics sans équivalent dans les démocraties concurrentielles : le troll médiatique — un provocateur auquel on accorde du temps d'antenne et des plateformes en ligne non pas malgré son excentricité et son style inflammatoire, mais précisément à cause d'eux.
Evgueni Kazakov, qui écrit pour la publication indépendante russe en exil Posle (После, « Après »), analyse le fonctionnement de ces figures au sein du système (…)

Putin's Russia has developed a distinctive category of public figure with no real equivalent in competitive democracies: the media troll --- a provocateur granted television airtime and online platforms not despite, but because of, their eccentricity and inflammatory style. Evgeny Kazakov, writing for the Russian independent exile publication Posle, analyses how these figures function within the Putinist political system and what structural role they serve.
The figures Kazakov examines (…)

The Battle of the Sutjeska (the Nazi “Operation Schwarz”) in June 1943 was the closest the Axis came to destroying the Yugoslav partisan main force, and its outcome marked a turning point in the war in Yugoslavia.
By mid-1943 the Communist Party of Yugoslavia had transformed a 5,000-member underground into a movement fielding four divisions, with political authority across liberated territories and two years of accumulated mountain warfare experience.
The Germans had also adapted. (…)

Ukraine's Decent Work Country Programme for 2026–2029 is nothing of the sort, Tte government's flagship labour reform, Draft Labour Code No. 14386, directly contradicts each of the programme's three stated priorities. The bill would allow dismissals and overtime without trade union consent, permit employers to keep information secret from unions, authorise permanent workplace video surveillance, and strip protection from working parents of children over eighteen months. The government is (…)